The scheduling of the activities of the Annual Meeting is the responsibility of the ASA Executive Office. The tentative schedule of general ASA activities and plenary sessions for 2004 is as follows. No other activities may be held during the plenary times noted below.

Friday, August 13
6:30-8:15 p.m., Opening Plenary on W.E.B. DuBois
8:30-9:30p.m., Welcoming Party

Saturday, August 14
12:30-2:15 p.m., Plenary Session
6:30-8:15 p.m., Section Receptions
7:30-9:15 p.m., Public Lecture: Mary Robinson
9:30-11:00 p.m., Departmental Alumni Night

Sunday, August 15
4:30-6:15 p.m., Awards Ceremony & Presidential Address
6:30- 7:30 p.m., Honorary Reception
8:00-10:00 p.m., Activities of Other Groups
9:30-11:00 p.m., Just Desserts, a TEF Benefit Reception

Monday, August 16
12:30-2:15 p.m., Plenary Session
6:30-8:15 p.m., Section Receptions
7:30-9:15 p.m., Public Lecture Arundhati Roy 9:30-11:00 p.m., MFP Benefit Reception

Tuesday, August 17
7:00-8:15 a.m., ASA Business Meeting

Due to the complexities of scheduling a program with nearly 600 sessions and more than 4,000 participants, it is not possible to avoid all conflicts of individual obligations. Participants with multiple commitments may contact their session organizers or ASA Meeting Services staff anytime before March 15, 2004 and request scheduling consideration. Meeting Services staff will try to accommodate reasonable requests, but no guarantees can be given. Information on the program schedule in general will not be available before May 15.

Section Scheduling. Section activities are pre-assigned to specific days. Section session times on those days will not be finalized until the overall program schedule is completed. The revised rotation schedule for Section activities in 2004 results in the groupings on assigned days shown below.

All Section program sessions and Council/Business meetings will be scheduled on the assigned days. Those Sections whose programs are larger than the time slots available on their days will have sessions scheduled on adjacent days, as noted below. Section Council/Business meetings must be held on the assigned days.

Saturday, August 14

Aging and the Life Course****
Asia and Asian America
Children and Youth
Crime, Law, and Deviance*
Culture, Sociology of**
Economic Sociology
Labor and Labor Movements
Marxist Sociology
Methodology
Social Psychology*
Teaching and Learning in Sociology

Sunday, August 15

Community and Urban Sociology*
Ethnomethodology & Conversational Analysis+
History of Sociology
Latina/o Sociology
Law, Sociology of
Mathematical Sociology
Mental Health, Sociology of
Political Sociology
Population, Sociology of
Science, Knowledge, and Technology
Sex and Gender, Sociology of**

Monday, August 16

Alcohol and Drugs, Sociology of
Comparative and Historical Sociology
Environment and Technology
Family, Sociology of the*
Organizations, Occupations, and Work**
Peace, War, and Social Conflict
Racial and Ethnic Minorities*
Rationality and Society
Religion, Sociology of
Sexualities, Sociology of
Sociological Practice

Tuesday, August 17

Animals and Society - -
Collective Behavior and Social Movements
Communication & Information Technologies
Education, Sociology of - -
Emotions, Sociology of
International Migration
Medical Sociology - - - -
Political Economy of the World System -
Race, Gender, and Class - -
Theory - -



*one session must be scheduled on the following day
**two sessions must be scheduled on the following day
***three sessions must be scheduled on the following day
- one session must be scheduled on the preceding day
- - two sessions must be scheduled on the preceding day
- - - - four sessions must be scheduled on the preceding day
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Section receptions will be scheduled on the first and third evenings of the meeting. For 2004, sections whose assigned program day is August 14 or 15 will have access to reception space at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of August 14. Sections that meet on August 16 or 17 will have reception space made available at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of August 16. Requests from Section Chairs for reception space are due by March 1, 2004.